FORKED RIVER – OPRAmachine, a first of its kind statewide freedom of information portal powered by the New Jersey Open Public Records Act officially launched this week, Rozzi Media Group announces. Our new freedom...
Our new sister website, JerseyLeaks, has officially launched. In collaboration with other participating news organizations, JerseyLeaks allows whistleblowers to securely upload leaked documents for review and publication by anonymously connecting them with our team...
LACEY – An elected school board member had criticism for the Lacey Board of Education, citing transparency issues, among other things at the January school board meeting. “I’d like to offer my apologies to the...
TRENTON – The state Government Records Council (GRC) has taken formal action on a Lacey Township school board member’s complaint filed in 2015 against her own board of education, which alleged violations of the state Open Public Records Act (OPRA) after...
South Jersey Democratic Boss George Norcross’s company – Conner Strong & Buckelew – is probably getting money via public contracts from your town in some way, but campaign finance disclosure reports won’t tell you a...
The Long Beach Island Consolidated School Board has settled a lawsuit filed against it earlier this year by a government transparency group alleging violations of state disclosure laws. A consent order approved by the Ocean...
At the last meeting of the Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders before the November general election, independent candidate John Novak criticized the incumbent freeholders over the recent results of an OCP government transparency...
An analysis of the public information made available by Ocean County governmental agencies conducted by this website has concluded that many of the county’s boards & commissions fail to provide copies of basic meeting minutes and...
At the local level, government transparency is a mixed bag for much of Ocean County. Some towns provide timely updates of public information, while getting transparency in others is like pulling teeth. This website...
Lakewood’s camera-shy zoning board members can’t take the heat, throw another fit over citizen’s cameras present at public meeting. Ever since a Lakewood resident going by the screen name “First Amendment Activist” started filming public meetings...
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